We thought you and your visitors might be interested to hear about a new Alternate Reality Game that we’re putting together.

“Traces of Hope” is being launched as the first ever charity online ARG and is being built by the British Red Cross to coincide with its Civilians and Conflict month. The game features Joseph a sixteen-years-old caught up in the Ugandan civil war, separated from his family, hungry and alone in a camp overflowing with thousands forced to flee, Joseph is desperately seeking his mother. But he needs your help…

Registration will open on Sunday 28th but until then there’s a teaser page at http://www.tracesofhope.com and a teaser video at http://www.vimeo.com/1811645

We’d really appreciate a link to the game or any coverage you could provide. Any questions please let me know,

Thanks

Alex

http://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/alienresurrection_early.txt

i’m sure there’s a line in finished script, uttered by Johner, that alludes to Call’s generalised empathy being “more human than human”. + now i have _white zombie_’s song in my head [brilliant track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXpbrGBIGxw ]

Wren has indeed made a messy hole here, but where blood and bone should be there is a tangle of synthorganic wiring. To state the obvious:

A robot.

JOHNER

Call’s a goddam synthetic!

HILLARD

Son of a bitch. Little Annalee’s just full of surprises.

RIPLEY (quietly)

I should have known.

ST JUST

Couldn’t smell this one out?

RIPLEY

No, I mean… all that crap about being human – there’s no one so
zealous as a Born Again.

VRIESS (to Call)

You’re an LM7, aren’t you? Is that it?

CALL

Leave me alone.

Her voice shocks her more than anyone her vocal track slip affected by
the wounds.

The voice is a shade slow, and echoes strangely.

VRIESS

Call ….

CALL (bitterly)

Yes.

ST JUST

LM7? Shit. That explains a lot.

YRIESS (to Ripley)

The latest and best. They were supposed to revitalize the synthetic
industy.

Instead they buried it.

Ripley looks at the girl.

RIPLEY

They were-too good.

VRIESS

Oh yeah. Overrode their own behavioral inhibitors. Didn’t feel like
being told what to do.

The government ordered a recall. Fucking massacre.

HILLARD

1 always heard there were a few that got out alive, but man… I never
thought I’d see one.

Johner starts laughing.

JOHNER

Oh, Christ. Doing fucking nickel and dime border runs, selling second
hand junk to the farm belt… and we’re carrying the most expensive
piece of contraband in the system.

That’s rich.

PURVIS (getting anxious)

It’s great, she’s a toaster oven… Can we leave now?

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